Classified List
1. Agriculture and Food
Updated to 18 May 2026 (Act No. 10 of 2026 and S.I. No. 212 of 2026)
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► 1.1. Agricultural Appeals Office
► 1.2. Agricultural Structures
► 1.2.1. Research Training and Advice
► 1.3. Animals
► 1.3.1. General
► 1.3.2. Animal Diseases
| Agric | 26/1979 | |
| Agric | 5/1996 | |
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7/1986 |
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Repealed by Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, not commenced.
9
Repealed by Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, not commenced.
10
This Act provides for its own repeal in s. 9(3) on making of a ministerial order dissolving the Slaughtered Animals (Compensation) Trustees. The Commission is not aware of such an order. The Act appears to be obsolete.
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► 1.3.3. Dogs
| Agric 11 |
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32/1986 |
| Community | 13/1992 | |
| Environ 14 | 29/2010 | |
| Agric | 29/2011 | |
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11
See S.I. No. 238 of 2025, See S.I. No. 357 of 2017. Previously Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. Ministerial functions under s. 33 transferred from Finance to Public Expenditure and Reform by S.I. No. 318 of 2015.
12
The enabling sections are Control of Dogs Act 1986 (32/1986), ss. 19 and 31. Section 19 was substituted by Control of Dogs (Amendment) Act 1992 (13/1992), s. 8(1), (2), substitution commenced by Control of Dogs (Amendment) Act, 1992 (Commencement) Order 1998 (S.I. No. 443 of 1998). There is a saver for regulations in s. 8(2): “Regulations under section 19 of the Control of Dogs Act, 1986 , in force immediately before the commencement of this section, shall continue in force after such commencement as if made under the said section 19, as inserted by this section, and may be amended or revoked accordingly.”
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Agriculture (in part), See S.I. No. 238 of 2025
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Agri (in part), see S.I. No. 391 of 2025 |
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► 1.3.4. Horses
| Agric 15 | 37/1996 | |
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15
Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011.
16
There may also be by-laws made by local authorities under this Act.
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► 1.3.5. Wildlife
► 1.4. Common Agricultural Policy and Price Support
► 1.4.1. Price Support and Price Subsidy
► 1.5. Crop Production and Safety
► 1.5.1. Research and Training
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33/1945 |
| Agric | 30/1959 | |
| Agric |
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32/1980 |
| Agric |
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2/1996 |
| Agric |
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10/2014 |
► 1.5.2. Animal Feedingstuffs
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11/1953 |
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25/1959 |
| Agric |
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22/1969 |
► 1.5.3. Cereal Seed Variety Testing and Seed Certification
► 1.5.4. Fertilizers and Plant Trade
► 1.5.5. Flour
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40/1956 |
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74
Certain functions transferred by S.I. No. 217 of 1968; this Act does not appear to have been used since the 1960s and appears to be obsolete.
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► 1.5.6. Pesticides
► 1.5.7. Potatoes
► 1.5.8. Seed Testing
| Agric | 14/1936 | |
| Agric | 14/1955 | |
| Agric |
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19/1956 |
► 1.5.9. Sugar
| Enterprise |
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16/1936 |
| Agric | 3/1991 | |
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77
The SIs made under this Act were for limited periods and have expired. |
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► 1.6. Food and Food Safety
► 1.6.1. Abattoirs
► 1.6.2. Animal Remedies
| Agric 78 |
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23/1993 |
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78
Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011.
79
The Animal Remedies Act 1993 (Section 32(1)(b)) (Commencement) Order 2001 (S.I. No. 468 of 2001) provided for the commencement on 20 September 2001 of s. 32(1)(b) of the 1993 Act (which provides for the repeal of the Therapeutic Substances Act 1932 (25/1932) “on such day as may be fixed therefor by order of the Minister for Health after consultation with the Minister [for Agriculture]”). The European Communities (Therapeutic Substances Act 1932) (Cesser of Application) Regulations 1992 (S.I. No. 406 of 1992), made by the Minister for Health under the European Communities Act 1972, provided that the Therapeutic Substances Act 1932 (25/1932) ceased to apply to therapeutic substances for human use with effect from 1 January 1993. The Explanatory Note to the 1992 Regulations stated that the substances concerned were already controlled under the Medical Preparations (Licensing, Advertising and Sale) Regulations 1984 (S.I. No. 210 of 1984) for the purpose of EU Directives on immunological medicinal products (89/342/EEC) and on medicinal products derived from human blood or human plasma (89/381/EEC). The definition of “animal remedies authorisation” in reg. 2(1) of the European Communities (Animal Remedies) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 786 of 2007) includes “(b) a licence granted under the Therapeutic Substances Act 1932 (No. 25 of 1932) in respect of an animal remedy named on the licence.”
80
The original enabling provision, Animal Remedies Act 1956 (41/ 1956), s. 7 was repealed by Animal Remedies Act 1993 (23/1993), s. 32, but in force instruments were continued under the 1993 Act by s. 31(1).
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Ibid.
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► 1.6.3. Food Promotion
► 1.6.4. Food Standards
► 1.6.5. Trading Practices
► 1.7. Land Reclamation
| Agric | 25/1949 | |
► 1.8. Livestock Breeding
► 1.8.1. General
| Agric | 32/1947 | |
► 1.8.2. Horses
| Agric |
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8/1990 |
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9/1989 |
| Agric 88 |
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31/1945 |
| Agric 89 |
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26/1976 |
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4/1993 |
| Agric 90 | 40/2000 | |
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88
Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011.
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Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011.
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Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011. |
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► 1.9. Meat Hygiene
► 1.9.1. Meat Hygiene
► 1.9.2. Pigmeat
► 1.9.3. Poultry and Eggs
► 1.10. Milk and Milk Products 93
93
Reg. 32(2) of the European Communities (Food and Feed Hygiene) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 432 of 2009) provides: “These Regulations apply in place of— (a) the Dairy Produce Acts 1924 to 1984, (b) the Creamery Acts 1928 to 1934, and (c) the Milk and Dairies Acts 1935 to 1956, in relation to the hygienic production and placing on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based products.”